Girl Name for 6th Baby
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Girl Name for 6th Baby
| Thu, 07-28-2005 - 3:57pm |
Girl Name for 6th Baby
- Alexandra
- Abigail
- Audrey
- Audra
- Emma
- Laura
- Tessa (dh doesn't like Theresa)
- Siblings: Elizabeth, Nicholas, Katherine, James, Samuel
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You, my dear, have great taste in names! I voted for Audrey because it is classic like the others but not as popular (that I know of)
Good luck!
Thank you. This is really hard to decide. I am surprised that Laura is in the lead right now. Alexandra has been my first choice, but I am having second thoughts on it. Seems like there are a lot of Allie and Abby little girls running around lately.
The other thing I am considering is that all of our children have long formal names, but go by a one syllable nickname:
Elizabeth (Beth)
Nicholas (Nick)
Katherine (Kate)
James (Jack)
Samuel (Sam)
So, it would be kind of nice for this baby to also have a one syllable nn. The only ones that I can think of are Emily/Emma (Em) or Theresa/Tessa (Tess). I like Laura and Audrey is really growing on me, but can't think of a nn for either name.
Of course, since this is going to be our last baby so it might also be nice for her name to be totally different than her siblings. Decisions, decisions. I have 3 more months to think about this, maybe too long!
Edited 7/29/2005 11:48 am ET ET by cagcrewmom
Well, I voted for Laura because it goes very well with her classic brothers & sisters names. Laura's been a consistently used but not overly popular name for the last 100 years. It's also my name so I know it ages very well and no one can guess my age by my name (which I adore!)
As for nicknames, there's the standard Lori for Laura but my siblings (and friends) call me Lola, which fits too. Other than that, I have a few nicknames based on what I do or what I look like but nothing else name based ( which I'm very happy about).
Here's the popularity of the other names on your list (along with how many kids were named that last year):
Alexandra - #37 - 6,529 (plus with a Nicholas already, it seems too "Russian Royalty" to me)
Abigail - #6 - 15,206
Audrey - #80 - 3,843 (lovely but too similar to the ubertrendy Aubrey for my comfort)
Audra - not on charts last year (last on chart: 2001) but doesn't feel as classic as the other names on your list.
Emma - #2 - 21,316
Laura - # 129 - 2,496
Tessa - # 277 - 1,160 (which is nice, but Tessa's fast up & coming and feels very nicknamey to me compared to your other kids. Teresa, nn Tessa would've been great but since your DH hates Teresa/Theresa, I just can't get past the nicknamey feel compared to Elizabeth & Katherine).
Of course, Elizabeth hasn't been out of the top 100 for a long time (at least 100 years) and Katherine's been a top 100 name for almost that long so you may not have issues with popularity as I do.. but I'd stil be wary of Audrey being confused with the ubertrendy Aubry often.
These are just my thoughts.. I hope they helped, some!
I love Abigal aka Abby :)